While one of the main current ECA commitments was to strengthen evaluation, OIOS observed that evaluation and self evaluation activities at subregional offices remain weak.

The Administrator reported to the Executive Board at its 2004 annual session that the Evaluation Office had initiated an independent evaluation.

In 2003, an evaluation of gender mainstreaming at UN Habitat was conducted by a consultant commissioned by the UN Habitat Evaluation Unit.

(h) Conducting 2 evaluation workshops at headquarters for UNODC staff.

The meta evaluation of the quality of UNICEF supported evaluations revealed the need to take energetic action to strengthen national evaluation at the country level.

The problem was exacerbated by fraudulent, or at least dubious, evaluation practices.

Advisor at the UN Drugs International Programme Evaluation, Vienna, August November 1994.

The 2003 Progress Report and the Evaluation Synthesis Report are available at www.nationalchildbenefit.ca.

The 2003 independent evaluation of the GM found that IFAD had not fully deployed its proposal. See Independent Evaluation of the Global Mechanism, at para 40.

At the corporate level, focus will be ensured through the global Evaluation Committee, and organizational evaluation and research trends will be monitored and their needs coordinated.

Report on an Evaluation of the Vanuatu Society for Disabled People (VSDP) and Evaluation of the SPPF CIDA funded Capacity Building Project at VSDP. Mimeo, unpublished.

At country level, multilateral institutions and international partners will establish a Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Country Support Team to align their provision of technical support on monitoring and evaluation to the national monitoring and evaluation system.

The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer had presented the draft report on the evaluation (UNEP OzL.Pro ExCom 45 11) at the forty fifth meeting of the Executive Committee.

At its second regular session 2002, the Executive Board of UNDP UNFPA recommended that the UNDP Evaluation Office undertake a global evaluation of gender mainstreaming in UNDP.

Most are, at the least, useful examples for anyone wishing to conduct Advocacy Evaluation.

Accordingly, the evaluation of a consultant's performance generally takes place at the end of the contract.

The process consists of several phases with continuous evaluation and feedback at each phase and at the end of the process.

The evaluation examined implementation in the field knowledge generation and dissemination at headquarters and policies and leadership at the corporate level.

One important step in promoting self evaluation has been the incorporation of a specific section on evaluation planning at the subprogramme level, in the programme budget instructions issued in September 2004.

Multilateral Fund website, Evaluation (2003), at http www.multilateralfund.org evaluation.htm (last viewed April 15, 2005).

The evaluation will begin in 2005 and I will submit my recommendations, based on the findings and recommendations of the evaluation, to the General Assembly at its resumed session in June 2006.

The evaluation report is available online at http www.pch.gc.ca progs em cr eval 2003 2003_02 index_e.cfm.

Evaluation

Evaluation

Evaluation

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

Expresses its appreciation to the independent evaluation team for the evaluation report, and to the Government of Norway for its financial support for the evaluation

UN Habitat should increase the capacity of the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit by at least one post to better meet its requirements and to improve the quality of evaluation and monitoring activities (see paras.

The Division also relies on the evaluation capacity of the Independent Evaluation Unit of UNODC.

Governments also agreed to pursue evaluation studies based on the evaluation framework where appropriate.

Strengthening evaluation

(c) Evaluation.

(c) Evaluation

C. Evaluation

Evaluation cCriteria

Independent evaluation

In addition, a self evaluation had been undertaken by the Evaluation Office, using as benchmarks the new Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the United Nations System.

The self evaluation exercise looked at strengths and weaknesses and pointed to areas where the Office could be improved.

Self evaluation has been an integral element of the monitoring and evaluation requirements since 1986.

Global Environment Facility, Revised Terms of Reference for an Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, at 2 (2003).

The new global Evaluation Committee adopted a plan of action to strengthen the evaluation function throughout UNICEF.

E. Management evaluation

UNHCR'S EVALUATION POLICY